The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-23
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Vermont.
BRATTLEBoRo proposes to hold music
festival next May.
A LARGE number of smelt are being
caught this season on Lake Champlan.
REV. HOMER EATON, d. D., will deliver
the Memorial day address in Burlington.
IT is said that the late Colonel A. b. jew
EFT of Swanton left property valued at
100000.
GENERAL GEORGE T. CHILDs of st. AL
bans delivers the Memorial day address at
st. Johnsbury.
p. II. DoLAN of Rutland was killed on
the Third Avenue Elevated road in New
York city on Friday.
COLONEL w. p. FAIRBANKS has become a
partner in the New York branch of the
Fairbanks business house.
THE Methodists of Barton have dedicated,
free of debt, their handsome new church
which was built last season.
REV. Mr.. PITMAN, formerly of Malone, N.
Y, has been called to be associate rector of
st. Pauis church, Burlington.
THE Free Press gravely announces the
burning of the residence and contents Of
Mr.. job Bates at Essex Junction.
Hon. G. p. HOGAN of Sheldon has been
engaged by the G. A, r. Post of Stowe to
deliver the Memorial day address.
The house and barn of Job Bates at Essex
junction were burned Sunday evening. The
loss is about $1,000. Insurance $1,000.
COLONEL JOYCE has been engaged by
Ethan Allen Post of Vergennes to deliver
the Memorial day address at that place
THE will of Israel Munson of Waling-
ford bequeaths $4,000 to each of his two
sons and $4,000 to his two grandchildren.
THE medical department of the Uni
versity of Vermont at Burlington has opened
with an attendance of nearly l75 students.
THE Congregational church at Lyndon
vile has decided to extend call to the
Rev. Mr.. Bodwell, who has been supplying
there.
THE revival in progress at the Highgate
Methodist Episcopal church is progressing
and about seventy conversions are already
reported.
CHESTER LEWIS, while taking care of his
horse at Wells, received a kick in the face,
breaking his under jaw in four places and
his upper jaw in one.
CAPTAIN CoRBIN has leased the Iodine
Spring House, South Hero, to a California
party for one year. for the purpose of enter
tanning his friends.
BRATTLEBoRo is taking a census of the
town, to obtain data for book stating the
advantages and attractions which that town
offers to manufacturers.
Two Chinese aundrymen in st. Adams
have become converted to Christianity and
are regular attendants at the Baptist Sum-
day-school in that town.
L. b. ATWOOD, prosperous clothing mer-
chant of St. Johnsbury, died of pneumonia
recently at Chicago. He had been West to
look after a branch house.
BY reason of some different arrangement
of the pump being necessary, the steam car
heating experiment on the Central Vermont
has been deferred a few days.
A SMALL son of p. Holmes of Fairbanks
village (St Johnsbury) while at play re-
Gently fell into a bath-pan of hot water and
was burned so badly that he died
The Billings Library, University of Yer
mont, Burlington, has recently been given
$500 worth of miscellaneous books by
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. of Boston.
AT Bennington, Saturday, Tom Stewart
was fined 500, with an alternative sentence
of over three thousand days in the house of
correction, for illegal liquor-selling.
LYMAN HUNTER, an employee in the stair
building factory at Brattleboro, was struck
in the abdomen with such force by a board
flying from saw that he cannot live.
New Vermont postmasters: Edgar NJ.
Butler at East Jamaica, Andrew j. Stevens
at Hartland Miss Martha Taylor at Proc
torsville, j. L. Shurtletf at Taftsville.
WoRKMEN on Eastern avenue and Main
street, st. Johnsbury, who have been re-
pairing water pipes this week. found it
frozen solid nearly six feet below the sur
face.
the opinion that the failure of the dependent
pension bill to pass will double the number
of inmates in the new home the first year
after it is opened.
THE Central Vermont railroad and Grand
Isle Steamboat Company have purchased
Providence Island, near South Hero, and
will build dock thereon and make picnic
ground of the island.
ACCORDING to Charleston South Caro-
lina) journal A. c. Baisdell, Rutland
builder who went there to help build the
city after the earthquake, left the city with
between 5000 and 500 of unpaid bills.
THE Law and Order League of Benning-
ton has sent notices to each of the thirty
two saloon-keepers in that town, notifying
them to stop the sale of liquor by a speci-
ned time or suffer the consequences of
their illegal traffic.
HENRY b. LEE of Rutland was found
dead on the highway in Benson. 1t is sup
posed that he was travelling on foot to visit
son at Keeseville, N. Y, and becoming
chilled, fell by the way and froze to death.
He was seventy-tive years of age
W. CoRBIN of South Hero writes as fol-
lows: " The fastest horse ever raised in
this state was raised on North Hero by Cor
bin Blanchard. His record the last season
was 2:225; his name is Rex, and he was
sired by Old Earthquake, who is owned in
South Hero"
THE Vermont Valley Stock Breeders
Association have just purchased handsome
coal black stallion, four years old, which
was imported from France last season,
weighs ,430 pounds and can show better
than three-minute gait. He is full
blood Percheron.
REGARDING the collision of the two trains
at South Barton, the railroad commission
place the blame upon the assistant train
dispatcher. who carelessly failed to deliver
orders as directed to one of the trains No
one was injured, although one of the trains
was passenger train.
THE Weldon National Bank of st. a lhans,
which began business last May, is in flour
ishing condition, and has the reputation of
being one of the solid financial institutions
of the state. The banks resources March
We're S306 606.91, and the amount of its in
dividual deposits subject to check was $177,-
7S0.97.
SHERIFF SULLowAY raided the St. Johns
bury hotels and saloons last week for liquor.
At the st. Johnsbury House fifteen gallons
in bulk and fifty quart bottles were seized
and at the Avenue House ten casks were
seized containing from one quart to twenty
gallons. In the saloons raided nothing was
found.
AT the time of Bradley Barlow's failure
Ex-Governor Fairbanks, it will be remem-
bered, attached ten engines on the South
eastern railway to secure in part his debt
against Barlow. We understand "A decision
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